Witchboy, are you maintaining a Michelin Guide to hacked sites or something?  You're always first with the news

The thing is, as a paid artist she could have done no real harm.  When she was very unwell she may not have made anything, another month she may have felt up to it.  The problem arose when her role crossed a boundary into administrative - a position of responsibility.

See this is why Pescado appoints obscure people to be his staff.  It means they're less likely to have an agenda.  He also screens for flakiness.

I don't think they accept anything but credit cards, so I don't suppose kids can use it at all.  Which is even more sad in many ways.

Is it possible she apologised the first time and they just felt sorry for her?  Maybe they thought givning her another chance would give some direction to her life.  I mean I can understand someone feeling sorry for her in spite of how ugly she comes across at times.

The way I see it is Thomas made a huge error of judgement sharing the info he did, and/but I don't suppose for a minute he had anticipated the sheer loose-cannonship that has been perpetrated by this unfortunate mess of a woman.   It just goes to prove the point I have been trying to make to various TSR reps ever since, which is that you do NOT share certain types of data with people you don't have any contractual control over.

If only Thomas would acknowledge openly that he made a mistake and has learnt from it, we could all go back to hating TSR just for being the hugest paysite in the world of simming. 

Just to position myself on the paysite issue, I have been trying to give Johan ideas for how they can offer more content free under various conditions without damaging their profits too much.  I would love to see TSR return to a system where every download will be free at some time or another.  I am still in favour of a community where all game content is shared free of charge.  I do have an anti-piracy policy for my own behaviour, however I would not actively interfere with other people who wish to commit pirate acts on software.

Back to Atwa:  I think she was placing emphasis on her loyalty to TSR in order to make more of a case for how badly they treated her.  To make herself look more misunderstood and hard done by.   But to me it seems obvious that at the time these conversations took place her *feelings* had changed, and the loyalty (if she ever genuinely had any) had been replaced by anger and resentment towards TSR or some people within it.

I did read the conversation, and what I saw in it was an erstwhile love of TSR that had turned to bitterness and resentment due to what she felt had been unfair treatment of her.   There is no enemy as bitter as an ex-lover.

Thing is, with Atwa so embittered, isn't she likely to have a motive to make TSR appear even *worse* than they are, rather than being likely to carry out Thomas's wishes by hacking other sites, she is likely to be motivated to spread rumours against Thomas and TSR that make it look like they wanted other sites hacked.   So if anything I would be biased in the other direction having read these extracts.

Thanks for the link, I have read it now.   What strikes me is how unwell Anita seems to be, mentally.  How much credence can we actually give her account?

Where is this MSN chat then?  I can't see the link to it.

Coconut sauce!!  That would be awesome, along with Satay

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